REASONING

Islam is a religion of nature. And so, whatever is in accordance with the demands of nature will also be considered part of Islam. For further understanding of using correct reasoning we need to know two other types of reasoning; academic and speculative. Academic reasoning is reasoning that is based on some proven fact. For instance, if you say that the goal of Muslims is calling people to God, and that hence what Muslims should do is to bear witness for God’s religion before all mankind, it would be an instance of academic reasoning. It will be accepted that this statement is based on a genuine foundation, because there are Quranic verses that support this reasoning (2: 143; 12: 108). These verses unambiguously prove this as the goal of Muslims or the Muslim ummah. Some claims are based on reason, while some others are based on scripture. If a claim is based on reason, in order to prove that it is right, it is necessary to offer a rational proof which, through rational analysis, shows it to be a proven fact. Similarly, if a claim is over something related to scripture, it is necessary that it be unambiguously and clearly derived from the authentic scriptural sources—the Quran and Sunnah. In speculative reasoning, a point is sought to be proved on the basis of a certain hypothesis. For example, someone makes the claim that the aim of Muslims is to acquire global political rule, and then, on the basis of this claim, launches a movement aiming at this global political rule. This sort of reasoning is speculative reasoning, and because of this, its status is baseless. This is because nowhere in the entire Quran is it mentioned that the goal of Muslims is global political rule and that, therefore, Muslims should seek to acquire global political rule. This sort of reasoning is utterly baseless. Equally baseless is any movement that is launched based on this reasoning. o Tree A tree is known by its fruit which is the final phase of the tree's life. Similarly the pattern of human life will be judged on what it turns out to be.